Improvement in strainers for milk-pails



C. SIIHAMBFIAl Strai'ners for Milk-Fails.

N0.l5|,058. Patented Maly/19,1874.

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| E/TUL NUNTTEJD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD SCHAMBRA, OF WHEELING, VEST VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN STRAINERS FOR MILK-PAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,058, dated May 19, 1874; application iiled March 2e, 1874.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, CONRAD SGHAMBEA, of Vheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia, have invented a new and Improved Strainer Attachment for Milk-Fails, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a strainer attachment to milk cans or pails, adapted to serve in combination with a small cap for the cover for the pail, and also 4adapted 'for the attachment of a funnel for straining and discharging the milk into a stone jug, or a pail or other vessel having a small neck.

uFigure l is a sectional elevation of the strainer attachment and its cap arranged for the cover ot a pail. Fig. 2 is a sectional ele vation, showing the strainer arranged for straining the milk into a pail. Fig. :5 is a plan vieur of Fig. l; and Fig. el. isa section of the straine1,\vith the funnel applied for straining the milk into a jug.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

A is a can or pail of any approved kind, with a cylindrical hand or hoop at the top to receive the hand C ofthe strainer, which consists of a conical hoop, D, Wiregauze strainer E, and the cylindrical hoop F, the conical hoop heilig connected to the middle of the hoop O on its inside, so that said hoop O can be tted on the top B either end up. G is a cap tting on the hoop E when the strainer is to he used for a cover. His a funnel fitting on said hoop F when the milk is to be strained into a jug or other like vessel.

When the milk is to be strained into the pail the strainer is placed on the pail, as represented in Fig..2, the cap G being removed. Vhen it is to be used as a cover it is inverted, as in Fig. l, and the cap G is put on at hoop F at the top, as in Fig. l.

When the funnel is to he used the strainer is removed from the pail and the funnelattached to the hoop F, as in Fig. 4, to be pnt in the nozzle ot the jug or other narrow Vinout-hed receptacle.

Tith this construction the milk can be strained at the same time that it is milked into the pail or any other vessel, and when the pail is filled the cover is ready at hand for covering it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim `as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 

